I'm new to SQL, but not new to databases. The author does a decent job of starting out in Chapter 1 with a discussion explaining databases. At the end of the chapter, he strongly encourages the reader to "create the sample database and run the examples in the book."
The database model is extensive, and it would take considerable time to replicate the database. This is time that I am not learning about SQL, which is why I started the book in the first place. He gives a link to the publishers website to download the SQL code to do his exercises, but the database is not there.
Readers expect that learning SQL requires a a sample database, and that database should be included with the book. That the database is not provided, and is not downloadable, is unacceptable.
There are MANY other choices where the databases are included with the book. I have abandoned "SQL Demystified" and will start over with another book that doesn't expect the database to be re-created.
